Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 72
The old man bade the king enter the town and stay at his house, that he might meet his daughter.
Who acts: old man bade, bade · What happens: enter, stay, meet · To what, where: town, house, daughter
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man bade, bade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enter | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | appos |
| 7 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enter | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stay | cc |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enter | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 meet | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 meet | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 meet | aux |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stay | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meet | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | the old man bade | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | the old man bade not said here | bade's house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | might | bade | bade's daughter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Co-Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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